Ethernet over Power line

[petcol]

Hi all,

This all sound interesting, does'nt it, no wessy CAT5 cables routers etc except the individual units from different manufacturers appear to be using propriatory protocols, I'm guessing anyway.

I've had the early model version from Netcomm they were great but only 14 mps, then I upraded to the 85 mps ones when available and again from Netcomm and sucessfully ran my server from the garage two levels below while we had visitors staying in it's normal room.

I'm gettingg around the 40 ~ 50 mps mark with those units works great for normal stuff.

I thought I upgrade again to the 200 mps unit unfortunately Harris didn't have them in stick and I got stuck with a recomendaton of the Netgear version, only to find out when I hocked them up they couldn't be seen by the Netcomm software/units.

I installed the Netgear Software and up they came immediately, showing 200 mps local and unfortunately and very disappointedly you guessed it 50 mps remote. We are talking the same phase here and one room apart new wireing and I'll check it to night to make sure it's on the same circuit. In either case if this is the best they can do then it reaks of false advertising they are being promoted as being able to transfer High Difiinition movies, clearly not over 50 mps

I'm interested to hear what other have to say... As always I'm open to suggestiong I may be doing something wrong, however after 40 minites on hold to the Netgear - Datacomm support here in Sydney I bailed and hung up. Twice.

[greedo]

High definition movies can be streamed with WAY less than 54mbps. I have streamed HD (720p WMV anyway - haven't tried any 1080p or even 1080i) over wireless 54mbps using nowhere near the full 54mbps.

To my understanding HDTV uses bitrates of around 12-15 mbps, which should work for you.

Or do these power line thingies never reach their full theoretical bandwidth like wireless?